April 19, 2005

Minutemen pronounce border vigil a success

Minuteman Project organizers yesterday declared victory after shutting down a 20-mile stretch of the Arizona border to illegal aliens, but promised to rally "tens of thousands" of new volunteers for a blockade this fall on the U.S.-Mexico border from California to Texas.

Hurry up, fellas, and man the Texas border (not to mention California's--I hear it's outrageous)!
We've got illegals by the hundreds coming in every day.

"This has been a successful and bloodless effort, proving without a doubt that the physical presence of additional bodies along the border deters illegal immigration," he[Minutemen founder James T. Gilchrist] said.
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A number of grass-roots civilian patrols have sprung up in other border states from California to Texas in response to the Minuteman Project here. Mr. Gilchrist said he hopes to rally the new patrols into a network of volunteers spreading from Brownsville, Texas, to San Diego, beginning as early as October.
    Mr. Gilchrist, a retired California certified public accountant and combat-wounded Vietnam veteran, said he plans to stay in Arizona through the end of the month, but will appear with Mr. Simcox next week before the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus in Washington.
    
He said he would detail the success of the Minuteman Project to the committee, including the fact that increased border enforcement resulted in decreased illegal immigration and that the Mexican government -- which moved illegals around the Minuteman-patrolled areas -- can control immigration on its side of the border "if it wants to."

It seems that either the U.S. or Mexico or both, in the best of all possible worlds, must work to control the problem and we know that Mexico won't, so that leaves us.
These fine, patriotic men are doing the Lord's work and are a worthy namesake of our early Minutemen who formed citizen militia to fight the redcoats, even though the modern counterparts have fought peaceably here and within the limits of our laws, this despite the fact that the MSM tried to paint them as "radical right wing vigilantes."
People power is the greatest, particularly in the land of the Free and the home of the Brave!